We provide a description of the QACTIS question-answering system and its application to and performance in the 2004 TREC question-answering evaluation. Since this was also QACTIS&...
Patrick Schone, T. Bassi, A. Kulman, Gary M. Ciany...
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
This paper presents a new corpus of human answers in natural language. The answers were collected in order to build a base of examples useful when generating natural language answ...
This report describes a new open-domain answer retrieval system developed at the University of Edinburgh and gives results for the TREC-12 question answering track. Phrasal answer...
Jochen L. Leidner, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jam...
In TREC 2007, Language Computer Corporation explored how a new, semantically-rich framework for information retrieval could be used to boost the overall performance of the answer ...
Andrew Hickl, Kirk Roberts, Bryan Rink, Jeremy Ben...